Johnny Diaz

Writer

Johnny Diaz is a features reporter at the Sun Sentinel. Prior to that, he was a media reporter for The Boston Globe's Business section and a features writer. Johnny is the author of five novels: Boston Boys Club, Miami Manhunt, Beantown Cubans and Take the Lead. His fifth book "Looking for Providence," was released May 2014.

Recent Articles

Becca Kufrin was named the new “Bachelorette’’ Tuesday night before a live audience on ABC. And there by her side to support and celebrate with her was Caroline Lunny, the Fort Lauderdale resident who was a contestant on “The Bachelor” this past season. Along with contestants Bekah Martinez, Kendall...

Call them beat cops. The Miami Beach Police Department has two officers working as deejays inside a lifeguard stand on weekends during the busy Spring Break month of March. Wearing headphones and bopping to the beats, the police deejays are sergeant Luis Corps and detective Chris Mitchell. Since...

ABC’s “The Bachelor” has been boasting of a dramatic season finale for Monday night’s three-hour episode. “Bachelor” and former race car driver Arie Luyendyk Jr. proposed to Becca Kufrin who won his heart and the show. But after proposing to her in Peru, the show followed the couple for a couple...

Camila Cabello has had a No. 1 song and album. And now she can legally drink to celebrate. The Miami pop singer celebrated her 21st birthday with her family in Miami. A video posted Monday on her social media accounts shows the Cuban-born singer sitting in the kitchen in front of a white two-layer...

Miami hip hop star Rick Ross has reportedly been released from the hospital after being found unresponsive at his Davie home March 1st. With his name in the news, here are some things you may not know about the prominent South Florida rapper and hip-hop mogul: Rick Ross is his stage name. His real...

The “Baywatch” remake with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson wasn’t nominated for any Oscars, but it was a “winner” in the annual Razzie awards. The 2017 movie filmed in Deerfield Beach won “The Razzie Contender So Rotten You Loved It” award, which was voted by people on the Rotten Tomatoes movie review...

Celebrity couple John Legend and Chrissy Teigen said they are donating $25,000 to the "March For Our Lives" demonstration in Washington, D.C. that is being organized by students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. “We support the students. We are proud of the students,” Legend...

David Hogg and Cameron Kasky, two of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students who have become outspoken advocates for gun control, will be appearing on “Real Time with Bill Maher” Friday night on HBO. Hogg and Kasky will be guests on the show along with former U.S. attorney general Eric...